The field of personality psychology is concerned with the assessment of the construct of personality. Constructs are simply psychological (as opposed to physically observable matter, e.g., a chair ...

Without the trait of neuroticism, our Big Five test’s predictive accuracy fell by 22 percent (the correlation between what we could predict about people from their personality traits and what ...

A personality test taken by the world’s richest men shows they often share similar traits. Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Jack Dorsey took the quiz devised by fellow billionaire Ray Dalio in 2019.… ...

In addition to being based on imperfect or discredited theories, most personality tests rely on flawed measurement.Even most Big 5 tests still use a traditional Likert-type scale, which asks ...

His article–”Why Everyone’s Favorite Personality Test is BS“—was one of the most widely read Work Life stories last year. Subscribe to the Daily newsletter.